Joshua Bassett Latest News, Photos, and Videos

New cast portraits were released on Wednesday (March 24) from the upcoming second season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series!

The entire main cast is featured – Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Sofia Wylie, Dara Renee, Larry Saperstein, Julia Lester, Matt Cornett, Joe Serafini, Frankie A Rodriguez, Kate Reinders and Mark St Cyr.

Here’s a season two synopsis: The East High Wildcats, who are preparing to perform “Beauty and the Beast” as their spring musical, face off against rival school North High to win a prestigious and cutthroat student theater competition. Wigs are snatched, loyalties are tested, and ballads are belted.

The new season will see quite a few new faces, including Derek Hough, Roman Banks, Olivia Rose Keegan, Andrew Barth Feldman and Asher Angel.

Get the scoop on all of the new characters!

In case you missed it, the cast wrapped filming a month ago. Season two will premiere on May 14th on Disney+.

Don’t forget to also check out the first look photos, and be sure to stay tuned to JJJ for when the trailer is released!

Joshua Bassett performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for the first time!

The 20-year-old sang his latest song “Telling Myself” on the episode airing Wednesday (March 24).

“PINCH ME!!! THANK U FOR HAVING ME @theellenshow ! full performance out on youtube :)” Joshua wrote on Instagram. Check out his performance right here!

If you didn’t know, “Telling Myself” is off of Joshua‘s new self titled EP, but it actually wasn’t originally supposed to be on the EP. Zombies star Chandler Kinney even starred alongside him in the music video for the song!

The track replaced the song “We Both Know,” a duet with Sabrina Carpenter. He took it off his debut EP because “I really want the focus to be on the art instead of some of the talk and the chatter.”

Sabrina Carpenter is supporting her rumored beau Joshua Bassett‘s new EP release!

The 21-year-old singer and actress took to her Instagram story to celebrate his work.

“I am in awe of your talent+ the way you tell stories,” she wrote. “So happy this is out in the world !”

Sabrina then added towards the bottom that the song “Heaven Is You” is “a personal fave.”

One reason why that song would be her favorite is that she actually co-wrote it with him, according to Genius. Listen below!

If you didn’t know, Joshua and Sabrina recorded a duet together, “We Both Know,” that was originally supposed to be on the EP, but after all the drama between the two and Olivia Rodrigo, he decided to drop the song off of the EP. See what he said about the decision!

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Joshua Bassett just released his long awaited, self titled EP!

The 20-year-old High School Musical: The Musical: The Series star has been working on the EP for the last two years, and it’s finally here.

“My debut EP is a rollercoaster of stories and emotions,” Joshua said in a statement. “It was written over the span of two years, so every song represents a different chapter of my life recently. It’s all about the messiness of relationships, the back and forth of falling into and falling out of love, and how those stories somehow come together into a cohesive chaos.”

In addition to releasing his EP, Joshua also just premiered the music video for the song “Telling Myself,” which co-stars fellow Disney star, Zombies 2 actress Chandler Kinney!

You can also catch Joshua on the 2021 Kids’ Choice Awards this weekend (March 13), as he was recently announced to make an appearance. He’s also nominated for Favorite Male TV Star. Find out who else will be there!

If you missed it, more first look photos and the premiere date were revealed for season two of HSMTMTS.

Download Joshua Bassett‘s EP right here and check out his music video below!

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Joshua Bassett is speaking out about no longer releasing his upcoming duet with Sabrina Carpenter on his debut EP.

The 20-year-old HSMTMTS star opened up about the decision in a new interview with Billboard.

Joshua told the site that both he and Sabrina were “super excited” about the song, but in the end, “it was a very much a mutual conversation about what is best right now for everybody and this whole situation.”

“I didn’t want my EP to be overshadowed by some other narrative that people were trying to make,” Joshua added. “I really want the focus to be on the art instead of some of the talk and the chatter. You shouldn’t live to please everybody, but at the same time, there are ways to be sensitive to situations where maybe [‘We Both Know’] has a better chance at a different time.”

Joshua and Sabrina‘s song “We Both Know” was originally supposed to be the 5th song on the EP, but has been replaced with the track “Telling Myself.” Sabrina even teased the duet earlier this month.

The self titled EP will be out on March 12th.

In case you missed it, see his video reaction to being mentioned on SNL last weekend!

“First, I was in disbelief — [I was] mostly proud of Olivia,” he told Billboard about the sketch. “The fact that they were using her song in a sketch, I was like, ‘This is great. This is incredible!’”

“I was like, ‘I think I’m honored?’” he added about when the mentioned him. “They poke fun at everyone and everything. That’s the point of the show. I thought it was hilarious.”

AHHHH!!!! The premiere date for the upcoming second season of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series was just revealed!

Disney+ announced the news on Wednesday morning (February 24) that season two will come out on May 14!!!

Here’s a synopsis: The East High Wildcats, who are preparing to perform “Beauty and the Beast” as their spring musical, face off against rival school North High to win a prestigious and cutthroat student theater competition. Wigs are snatched, loyalties are tested, and ballads are belted.

The hit series stars Olivia Rodrigo, Joshua Bassett, Sofia Wylie, Matt Cornett, Larry Saperstein, Julia Lester, Dara Reneé, Frankie Rodriguez, Joe Serafini, Mark St. Cyr and Kate Reinders.

Just recently, it was announced that Asher Angel and Andrew Barth Feldman have joined the cast in recurring guest star roles. Find out all of the season two guest stars here!

We also got a slew of new first look photos, which you can view in the gallery.

We cannot wait for the second season!!

Joshua Bassett is sharing his reaction to being talked about on Saturday Night Live this past weekend!

The 20-year-old posted a video on his TikTok account of him seeing part of the “drivers license” sketch.

“dream come true?” he captioned the video.

In the clip, Joshua gets told by a friend, “dude you were on SNL last night!!!” He then excited rushes to his computer to watch, while Kacey Musgraves‘ “Happy & Sad” plays in the video.

Joshua watches the part where one of the characters likens his ex to Joshua, saying, “my b–ch ex Gina is Joshua Bassett,” and stops the video, then stares blankly at the camera, disheartened.

If you missed it, see how Olivia Rodrigo reacted to the sketch, which aired on her 18th birthday!